Archive for February 4th, 2010

Simpsons Intro Features “Couch Gag” iPhone App

Homer finds a useful app for the couch gag in the legendary ever-changing Simpsons intro.

Steve Jobs Rumored to Have Recently Traveled to New York for iPad Media Talks

Silicon Alley Insider reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs apparently traveled to New York City in recent days to meet with executives at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for discussions about bringing their content to the iPad.<p class="q…

Steve Jobs Rumored to Have Recently Traveled to New York for iPad Media Talks [Updated]

Silicon Alley Insider reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs apparently traveled to New York City in recent days to meet with executives at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for discussions about bringing their content to the iPad.<p class="q…

Apple Reportedly Offering 15% Refunds to Purchasers of Troubled 27-Inch iMacs

As Apple struggles with flickering and yellow-tinting issues on the displays of its 27-inch iMac models, Gizmodo has been continuing to closely follow the situation and has learned that Apple has been offering refunds of 15% of the machine’s purchase…

Apple’s iPhone Continues to Outpace Smartphone Industry Growth

Research firm IDC today issued a report highlighting fourth quarter and full year worldwide sales numbers of “converged mobile devices”, more commonly known as smartphones, revealing continuing outstanding growth for Apple’s iPhone above the overall …

Sling Player gets 3G streaming, AT&T iPhone mess, Cisco voice-over-WiFi app

The Sling Player app on the iPhone has been missing one key feature for many users — 3G streaming. That missing feature has now been added back with testing of a new 3G streaming version of the app underway.

BusinessWeek is talking about the mess that is the AT&T network and the iPhone. The publication points [...]

AT&T Approves ‘SlingPlayer Mobile’ Television Streaming Over 3G

AT&T today announced that it has decided to allow Sling Media’s SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone application to stream video content over its 3G network. SlingPlayer Mobile allows users of Sling Media’s “Slingbox” hardware to control and stream live and re…

Apple Expands Browser-Based ‘iTunes Preview’ Functionality to Include App Store

TechCrunch reports that Apple has expanded its browser-based ‘iTunes Preview’ functionality to include pages for App Store applications.

To see this for yourself, open any direct link to an iPhone app (example) in your favorit…

Amazon has Acquired Touchco – A Multi-Touch Company

NY Times reports that Amazon has acquired the multi-touch company Touchco. Touchco is a startup company that was recently profiled in the New York Times for producing cheap, pressure sensitive, multi-touch panels:

In contras…